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Research Guide - #31

ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY


U.S. ELECTRICTY INDUSTRY - THE EIA OTHER U.S. ELECTRICTY INFORMATION SOURCES WORLD ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY - THE EIA OTHER WORLD ELECTRICITY INFORMATION SOURCES NEWS

U.S. ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY - THE EIA

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

The homepage for EIA ELECTRIC FUEL links to EIA electric power publications:
www.eia.doe.gov/fuelelectric.html

TIP: You can shortcut to specific segments of electricity information, such as prices or industry consumption at the EIA HOMEPAGE, www.eia.doe.gov
Select from various access and subject menus.

The EIA publications listed below are also available online at the EIA Electric Fuel homepage:

ELECTRIC POWER ANNUAL. EIA. 1981 - current.

FINANCIAL STATISTICS OF MAJOR INVESTOR-OWNED ELECTRIC UTILITIES. EIA. Annual. 1989-1990.
HD 9685 U4 F5133 (ST)

ELECTRIC POWER MONTHLY. Online. EIA 1996 - current.

ELECTRIC POWER QUARTERLY. EIA 1983 - 1988
HD 9685 U4 E438 (3rd Flr.)

In addition to historic data on the Web site, the NATIONAL ENERGY INFORMATION CENTER will email historic data spreadsheets on request. Selected Monthly files from 1973; Selected Annual files from 1949.
www.eia.doe.gov/neic/neicservices.html

STATE ELECTRICITY PROFILES. EIA. Includes nuclear.
HD 9685 U5 S82 (RS)

To locate other EIA titles in the library, search FRANKLIN, the online catalog, for energy information administration as Author.

OTHER U.S. ELECTRICITY INFORMATION SOURCES

STATISTICS

ELECTRIC POWER USE BY INDUSTRY. U.S. Monthly, from 1972 to current.
www.economagic.com     (On bottom of screen in black section)

ENERGY USER NEWS. Monthly ranking of rates for commercial and industrial users, by state and company.
www.energyusernews.com     Select Statistics-> Trends-> Energy Data

NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE. Electricity Futures Contracts. Price quotes plus explanations of contracts.
http://www.nymex.com/

STATISTICAL YEARBOOK OF THE ELECTRIC UTILITY INDUSTRY. Edison Electric Institute (EEI). With disk. Historic data coverage varies by topic. 1998 statistics.
HD 9685 U4 E33 (RS)     (For a brief 1999 statistical summary, see http://www.eei.org)

DIRECTORIES

www.business.com     International. Under Electric Utilities.

www.utilityconnection.com     International. Scroll down to Content.

OVERVIEWS

FINANCIAL TIMES ENERGY & UTILITIES REVIEW. International.
http://specials.ft.com/energy/index.html

GLOSSARY OF TERMS. North American Electric Reliability Council. (NERC)
www.nerc.com/glossary

STANDARD & POOR'S INDUSTRY SURVEYS. Electric Utilities. U.S.
(HP; Print version is on Reserve Shelves.)

WALL STREET TRANSCRIPT. Industry and company insight and strategy. Extensive interviews with CEOs, money managers and analysts. Search by company, industry sector or keyword. (HP)

WORLD ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY - THE IEA

INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY (IEA). [Not to be confused with the EIA (U. S. Gov't), IEA is a division of the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD).]

NOTE: The IEA HOMEPAGE at http://www.iea.org links to some important free publications, such as the Monthly Electricity Survey.

A complete list is at http://www.iea.org/public/free.htm

Virtually all IEA reports are available in the Penn-restricted SourceOECD database. (HP) The IEA reports listed below are in SourceOECD:

To locate other IEA titles in the library, search FRANKLIN, the online catalog, for international energy agency as AUTHOR.

OTHER WORLD ELECTRICTY INFORMATION SOURCES

ANNUAL BULLETIN OF ELECTRIC ENERGY STATISTICS FOR EUROPE. United Nations. Economic Commission for Europe.
HD 9685 A1 U53 (ST)

ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK. ELECTRICTY INDICATORS. Asia-Pacific countries. Generation, consumption.
http://www.iea.org     
Select Economics and Statistics-> Statistics-> Publications-> Key Indicators

DIGEST OF UNITED KINGDOM ENERGY STATISTICS.
HD 9551.4 A34 (RS)

EUROMONITOR'S GLOBAL MARKET INFORMATION DATABASE.
209 countries. Electricity production / supply. Commercial and residential consumption. Annual historic data extends back 20 years. (HP)     
Select Country Data

MONTHLY BULLETIN OF STATISTICS. United Nations. Electricity production. 1947 - current.
HC 57 U66 (PER)

ENERGY STATISTICS YEARBOOK. United Nations.
HD 9540.4 Y932 (RS)

ENERGY, YEARLY STATISTICS. Statistical Office of the European Communities.
HD 9555 E8 S738 (RS)

NEWS

LEXISNEXIS ACADEMIC UNIVERSE. (HP)
Business-> Industry & Market-> Energy & Utility News

DOW JONES INTERACTIVE. (HP)
Select Publications Library-> All Publications
Use DJ codes for best results. (sn =source name; in=industry. elc=electric utilities industry.) Enter sn=dow jones energy service and in=elc
Or, to search in 6000 publications for electric utilities stories, enter: in=elc

Mergers filed with the FEDERAL REGULATORY COMMISSION (FERC) since 1/1/95.
www.ferc.gov/electric/mergers/mrgrpag.html

PUBLIC UTILITIES FORTNIGHTLY. North America. 1929-current. 22 issues per year.
HD 2763.A2 P813 (PER)

To locate other library materials on the electric power industry search in FRANKLIN for subject headings: electric utilities; power resources; electric industries; electric power

Location Codes

HP = Accessible through Lippincott's Homepage: www.library.upenn.edu/lippincott
CD = CD-ROM database. Located in Class of 1956 Computer Reference Center.
ON = Commercial online service. Access only in Lippincott Library. Ask at reference desk.
RD = Reference Desk ST = Stacks on the 3rd Floor WRDS = Wharton Research Data Services
RS = Reference Stacks PER = Periodicals MT = Microtext
SS = Service Shelves PC = Peck Collection Restricted to Penn faculty, students and staff


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